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by wolrah 1y ago
And those add an extra few cents to the BOM which bean counters will ask if it can be eliminated and handled in software, which it can for the most part be leading to the problem discussed. That said, my personal experience with this proble
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by wolrah 1y ago
I have likewise had the same situation with a Kindle Fire and a Huawei Watch, in both cases I was glad I had rooted them and thus had a much easier path to boot to recovery than I would have stock.
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by wolrah 1y ago
> What if I have a battery to charge while the device is off such as a laptop? How does Android deal with this when it's not booted? Does the bios handle this stuff? In my experience, if the device doesn't have enough power to
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by wolrah 1y ago
I'm not an electrical specialist but there are three major reasons I'm aware of that AC "won" at normal household/commercial power levels: 1. Switching. If you go look at your favorite part supplier you can find a
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by wolrah 1y ago
I think these are two positions that don't inherently conflict. In most cases you can still enjoy art you loved before you knew the artist was problematic without continuing to give them money. Don't stream it and don't buy
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by wolrah 1y ago
> it's most commonly activated by moving a sort of "stick" situated between the driver and passenger seat It's not even specific to the ones with the stick. I happen to enjoy and prefer vehicles with three pedals, bu
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by wolrah 1y ago
> my US mazda cx5 center brake light flashes when you press the brakes. That is not a factory feature, it's almost certainly a dealer-installed piece of junk like this ( https://pulseprotects.com/product-info/ )
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by wolrah 1y ago
> They literally invented smart phones iPhone was announced in January 2007 and shipped in June 2007. Windows Mobile literally had a version called "Smartphone 2002" which you should be able to guess when that came out. You co
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by wolrah 1y ago
> I am hoping the descent mechanism activates and the spacecraft lands intact. I think it's a safe bet that any descent mechanism designed for the thick atmosphere of Venus is not going to function the same way on Earth.
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> I'm pretty conservative about adopting third-party libraries (due to the long-term issues each one has the potential to cause), but an app updater is probably worth it. Especially for a Mac-only application where Sparkle ( https:&
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by wolrah 1y ago
> Is it really necessary to restate the advantages of rewriting in Rust in every such project? I'm with you when the "source" project is C/C++ or something in that realm, but when we're coming from an already mem
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by wolrah 1y ago
And for what it's worth, Macs have had this ability for basically as long as they've had Thunderbolt. The same can also be done over Firewire on all major platforms, but these days 400/800mbps just isn't what it was bac
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Why there is still no project which can do this by simply installing trivial driver (in windows) The driver has been built in to Windows for years, as it's the same tech as Thunderbolt networking. Just plug two Thunderbolt or USB
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Trunked is essentially useless to HAMs, and we never really use it much. I wouldn't say it's useless, but the utility is reduced because we typically don't have the density of users where two timeslots on a single channe
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> Obligatory post about the dumbest argument to ever be had online Jon Bois did an amazing video about this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4
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by wolrah 2y ago
> It is more of a warning than an actual security mechanism though. Similar to Mark of the Web. It's both a warning and an actual security mechanism. Obviously its most visible form is triggered when an application tries to write to
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by wolrah 2y ago
It seems like there's a healthy dose of "because it can be done" in play here, but also because there are a lot of platforms that are not supported by Rust where a Rust-to-C converter that generated standard-enough code could
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by wolrah 2y ago
This thread is yet another thing that makes me fear for the future of humanity. No, I don't use the hallucination machines to search, and I never will. I use search engines to search. I use the "make shit up" machine when I
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by wolrah 2y ago
> (really RJ-38 but that's excessively pedantic) RJ-38 is a 8P4C (eight pin, four conductor) modular connector with shorting bars used to allow an alarm system or similar to seize a phone line when plugged in but for the line to sti
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Working nights and weekends got me a close to ten figure exit at a now publicly traded fintech. So yeah, I don't mind. It's an entirely different matter if you stand to make huge gains if the company succeeds. That is not th
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by wolrah 2y ago
I think the intended purpose are cases like hotels where they really should be offering QR codes but instead just display text on the TV. If you control the display device then definitely just use the QR code but the problem this solves is
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by wolrah 2y ago
Back in the day my 28.8k modem came bundled with a book on HTML, which is how I learned to make my first personal web site. Even back then, the book recommended testing your web site in Lynx for two reasons: 1. Web sites are supposed to gra
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Ok if you feel this is not a backdoor, but the issue is this is not proof. There will never be proof. When it's a special type of command that's only accessible from the host CPU, I have a hard time seeing any way to call it
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Well, do you want things to work or are you willing to wait years until things are mainlined? What I want is for the SoC vendors to actually learn how to participate in the kernel process. Design their drivers from the ground up to be
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by wolrah 2y ago
I work in a lot of nursing homes and their in-house "cable" systems are almost universally a rack full of DirecTV receivers connected to a rack full of Blonder Tongue NTSC modulators. I would have to assume similar systems were c
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by wolrah 2y ago
> "Security by obscurity does not work" The saying is "security by obscurity is not security" which is absolutely true. If your security relies on the attacker not finding it or not knowing how it works, it's not
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by wolrah 2y ago
> If you can find evidence that’s the case, I’m intrigued. If you can find evidence supporting the useless information you posted, I'm intrigued. LLMs are not sources of information and never will be. No one cares what ChatGPT thin
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by wolrah 2y ago
Thanks for sharing everything you did. Back when I was just barely learning HTML to update my personal web sites on AOL and Geocities I found your site and that ended up putting me on a constant migration path between whatever free hosts w
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by wolrah 2y ago
Or just boot in to the EFI config interface and set a new default that way.
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I 100% agree, and I also think it'd be a better solution than wildcard certs in most cases where they're used. I would love to be able to have a personal CA cert that was name constrained to mydomain.tld for the duration of my re

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